This one takes the cake.  I had too observers in the clinic from an out
of town hospital.  They said that in their hospital, if a baby is
thought to be at risk for hypoglycemia, the lab (the lab!!!!) insists
that the baby not be fed, since it would falsify the test.

Talk about getting things ass-backwards.  Gee, I thought it was the baby
we cared about, not the lab test.  If the baby eats (breastfeeds, of
course) and the test shows he has a normal sugar, that really does mess
things up doesn't it?

This is what is happening to modern medicine.  We are so enamoured with
tests that we forget what they are for.  Obviously they are to protect
the physicians' and hospitals' medicolegal situation.

Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC